which is a fundamental misunderstanding of america. this -- we are not a great bureaucratic country. we're not a country where if only i could hire another 3 million bureaucrats, things would be terrific. in fact, just the opposite. we're a country where it's entrepreneurial energy, it's small businesses, it's -- it's people out there who create the next wave of jobs in a fundamentally different model than the academic left believes in. and so a number of us -- i was a candidate in that period. a number of us felt like carter anin the end would not succeed because his models were wrong. for example, we didn't have enough gasoline so instead of encouraging exploration, they raised taxes on the oil and gas companies and they went to rationing. well, rationing turned out to be a nightmare. and -- and a good friend of mine, david boss of citizens united, was 13 that year and his father every morning would give him the screwdriver to go out and change license plates so that the car that needed gasoline had the right license plate and could,